单词 | abridger |
释义 | abridgern. A person who makes an abridgement; a summarizer, a compiler. Also: a person who or thing which curtails or reduces something. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > curtailment > one who abridger1555 diminisher1601 retrencher1699 amputator1810 docker1810 curtailer1813 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging > one who abbreviator1529 abridger1555 summarist1577 summister1577 summulary1580 summer-up1599 summist1602 breviate-maker1611 epitomist1611 epitomizer1615 barber1616 breviarist1621 epitomator1621 summulist1635 abbreviarist1679 breviator1679 compendiarist1679 compendiator1679 curtailer1724 literator1785 summarizer1861 condenser1868 trimmer1876 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. iv. 137 I rather fansie..to folowe the founteines of the first Authours, then the brokes of abredgers. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. ii. sig. P2 Wanton loue..is the abridger of mans libertie. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Extrayeur de proces, a reporter, or Abridger, of Cases; a breuiate-maker. 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 137 The Great Abridger of Age was the Floud. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxii. 222 He was an Abridger of a larger Work. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 351 (note) The famous Henri Sponde, bishop of Pamiers, and abridger of the annals of Baronius. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry II. vi. iv. 143 He had, at his command, the names of the abridgers, and reporters, and commentators of the law. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. v. 62 The abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England..are eulogized by a thousand pens. View more context for this quotation 1858 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (new ed.) 451 A concocter of paragraphs, or an abridger of Parliamentary debates. 1926 Mod. Lang. Notes 41 514 The contention is not being made that Storm was only a copyist, an abridger. External or technical changes were necessary, inevitable. 1961 H. M. Craig New Look at Shakespeare's Quartos ii. 63 The knife of the abridger was not idle in Q1. This passage is about ten prose lines shorter in Q1 than in Q2. 2007 New Yorker (Nexis) 22 Oct. 66 Novelists have always seen their work cut—by the interfering editor or the posthumous abridger. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1555 |
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